Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Marinbach, Bernard, 1946-

Title Galveston, Ellis Island of the West / Bernard Marinbach
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [1983]
©1983

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xx, 240 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in modern Jewish history
SUNY series in modern Jewish history.
Summary While the massive flow of immigrants to the Northeast was taking place, a number of Jews were finding their way to America through the port of Galveston, Texas. The descendants of these immigrants, now scattered throughout the United States, are hardly aware that their ancestors participated in a unique attempt to organize and channel Jewish immigration. From their recruitment in Eastern Europe to their settlement in the American West, these immigrants were supervised by a network of agents and representatives. The project, known as the "Galveston Movement," brought over ten thousand Jews to the United States between the years 1907 and 1914
Notes Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-231) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Jews -- Texas -- Galveston
Jews -- Migrations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Jews
Jews -- Migrations
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
Galveston (Tex.) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Texas -- Galveston
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 82010609
ISBN 0585063761
9780585063768
1438411901
9781438411903
9780873957014
0873957016